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In Episode 90, I cover one of my favorite Styx songs "Blue Collar Man". The song was released as the first single from their eighth studio album, Pieces of Eight in 1978.

Tommy Shaw who wrote the song, stated he wrote the song about a friend going through some tough times. Shaw recalled when his friend was laid off from the railroad. "He was having to go stand in line at the unemployment office. It just drove him nuts, because he’s like, ‘I wanna work! I don’t wanna be standing around here, asking for a handout…’ It really bugged him, and that was the inspiration for that song. As read in a Circus magazine (or the like) of the time, the music was composed by Shaw after hearing the sound of his motorboat engine when it failed to start. He said it sounded like a good riff to a song.

Classic Rock critic Malcolm Dome rated it as Styx's 5th greatest song, saying that it is very Bruce Springsteen in philosophy, but very Styx in execution. The song reached #21 in the United States in November 1978 and spent two weeks at No. 9 on the Canada RPM Top 100 Singles chart.

The music of 1975 to 1980 was the best in my life's soundtrack and Styx was tight in the middle of it.

Gear used in the video:
I used my Epiphone Les Paul Muse guitar with a Seymour Duncan JB pickup in the bridge. My guitar parts were played through my Eleven Rack which was recorded, mixed, and arranged through Logic. The video was edited with Final Cut Pro.

I use Ernie Ball Strings because I want the best like many of my idols like Paul Stanley, Jimmy Page, Billie Joe Armstrong, Angus Young, Joe Bonamassa, and Paul McCartney to name a few.

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